Chance for Aucklanders to Choose Favourite Community Project

Visitors to
the North Shore Home & Garden Show will get the chance to
vote for their favourite community project thanks to
first-time exhibitor, ‘Logajob’. The Taranaki-based
business has just expanded into Australia and will use the
Home & Garden Show as the platform to launch nationwide in
New Zealand. The Show runs Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March at
the North Shore Events Centre.

The business is the brain
child of Tonya Callebaut, who says “Logajob offers service
businesses of all kinds a website presence from which to
quote on jobs, and as part of celebrating our arrival in
Auckland, we wanted to give something back to the local
community by doing one ‘big job’ ourselves. Show-goers
just need to visit our stand at the North Shore Home &
Garden Show to vote for their favourite community project.
The Logajob team, along with volunteers from local
businesses on the website, will then fulfill the people’s
choice.”

“There will be three options: The first with
Make a Wish - where volunteers grant a wish such as building
a spectacular tree house for an unwell child; a conservation
project - where helpers clean up a local beach or river; or
an animal welfare project - where Logajob contributes to
building new shelters for homeless animals.” Mrs Callebaut
said.

Home & Garden Show Director, Daniel Joll, says “We
applaud exhibitors who support the community in this way and
feel sure that show visitors will love the chance to have
their say. Show-goers also stand to win a week’s tropical
holiday for two to Niue Island and go into the draw to win
$2,000 worth of Resene vouchers. With over 200 exhibitors
(the majority of whom are local), they’ll get to preview
designer trends, talk to industry experts face-to-face and
will be spoilt for choice with the huge variety and
show-only bargains.”

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